cliveb;361068 Wrote: > A few years ago I would have agreed with you. But I fear that we've > fallen off the cliff recently. The race for loudness at any cost seems > to have become recording industry dogma (at least in the pop & rock > world). I get the uneasy impression that there are a large number of > so-called engineers who actually believe that the way it's done these > days is how it should be. > > And why do I believe this? Loudness for its own sake is really only > relevant in the mass market, where attention-grabbing radio play is > required. But every single "remaster" of old obscure albums that will > NEVER get radio play has the same treatment. Sure, they haven't been > "Metallica'd", but they are over-compressed nevertheless. If the > engineers responsible really understand the damage it causes, then > considering the marketplace for these releases, the damage would not > get done. But it does. > > There is the beginnings of a backlash - reactions to Death Magnetic > being the most famous recent example. But I fear that even if the > message gets through, the compression will only be backed off a > smidgen. We'll never get back to realistic dynamics until the RMS > levels of rock & pop releases go down a full 10dB or so.
I agree with you. I don't buy the "gun to the head" argument anymore as it's more of just not knowing better as the promotion team tells you that "louder is better" and it's up to you to believe it or not. I hope that musicians start taking matters into their own hands and put a stop to this madness. I think Themis had the key in that all musicians are not musicians. -- Nonreality -IF THE RULE YOU FOLLOWED BROUGHT YOU TO THIS, OF WHAT USE IS THE RULE.- HTTP://www.last.fm/user/nonreality ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nonreality's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55212 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
